Posted on 08/23/2004 12:29:55 PM PDT by mountaineer
If Geraldo Rivera was your grandkids dad you'd go nutz to...
maybe
Alright then.
It's like michael moore's poetry corner...
Vonnegut never had a mind to lose.
Hitler was not a Christian.
Really? This statement alone proves Vonnegut is an idiot.
Yeah, keep pushing to eliminate the US military. Kurt you idiot.
Then you'll really see a pitiless war machine - marching down your street.
With that said, he and I agree on one thing......he was pretty much written out somewhere between Galapagos and Bluebeard.
Some understanding of history he has: nazism was Hitler's repudiation of his Christian (Catholic) upbringing.
Hitler was a pagan.
I believe Vonnegut defines "Christian" as being a believer in God -- an anti-atheist. This would make Satanists "Christian" in Vonnegut's eyes because they believe there is a God--they just reject Him.
I'm sorry....never liked any of his stuff. And, I don't think it was simply because I was forced to read it in public schools by my doped-up hippie English teachers.
Not only does he fail to make sense but he can't get his facts straight either.
I suppose he thinks barbed wire was a more important innovation of WWI than tanks and poison gas. And of course machine guns were developed in various countries and it is hard to put it down as a purely American invention.
Adolf Hitler held Christians and Christianity in open contempt. I suppose receiving a sacrement is the only proof of Adolf's alleged Christianity.
Kurt Vonnegut, Noam Chomski, LewRockwell...the names are different, but the song is always the same.
I'm sorry Kurt, but I see no cat or cradle.
It's my understanding that Hitler thought he was the messiah, the 2nd coming. So in a way he was a flaky wacked out cultist leader who borrowed heavily what he needed from Christianity and discarded what he didn't need, sort of like that wacky Mohammed dude before him. Hitler was a European Shiite.
Sure it makes sense. You have to be a drooling devotee of The Gospel of Bushhate though.
Let's just ponder these wise words, shall we?
But now, he is neither original nor funny. He is simply disturbed and irrelevant. Sad. He was a talented guy. And he should have had some perspective on barbarism, because he was in Dresden as a prisoner of the Nazis, when that city was carpet-bombed by the Allies (as I recall).
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